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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Little Planet South Pole
APOD.NASA.gov ^
| 26 Aug, 2022
| Image Credit & Copyright: Aman Chokshi
Posted on 08/26/2022 1:43:25 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Lights play around the horizon of this snowy little planet as it drifts through a starry night sky. Of course the little planet is actually planet Earth. Recorded on August 21, the digitally warped, nadir centered panorama covers nearly 360x180 degrees outside the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica. The southernmost research outpost is near the horizon at the top where the light of dawn is approaching after nearly six months of darkness. Along the bottom is the ceremonial pole marker surrounded by the 12 flags of the original signatories of the Antarctic treaty, with a wild display of the aurora australis above.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: antarctica; apod; astronomy; nasa; science
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To: MtnClimber
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posted on
08/26/2022 1:43:51 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Pinging the APOD list.
🪐 🌟 🌌 🍔
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posted on
08/26/2022 1:44:32 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
Here's their North Pole...
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posted on
08/26/2022 1:51:07 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: DannyTN
Did Rudolph eat the other 11 in “reindeer games”?
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posted on
08/26/2022 1:52:44 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: MtnClimber
"Did Rudolph eat the other 11 in “reindeer games”?"That wasn't chicken?!? - Rudolph
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posted on
08/26/2022 1:55:26 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: DannyTN
Looks like a pretty meager Christmas delivery.
What's that? One bottle of booze an a tin of cookies?
/s
To: GaltAdonis
Christmas in the Biden economy.
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posted on
08/26/2022 2:07:09 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: MtnClimber
I don’t know why Superman didn’t choose this site for his fortress. I mean if he really wanted solitude.
To: MtnClimber
Sometimes I’m irritated by contrived photos but this one is pretty cool.
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posted on
08/26/2022 2:10:44 PM PDT
by
F450-V10
To: DannyTN
Wasn’t it 7 others, not 11? (channeling Burl Ives and “eight tiny reindeer”).
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posted on
08/26/2022 2:10:54 PM PDT
by
AFB-XYZ
(Stand up, or bend over)
To: MtnClimber
“Did Rudolph eat the other 11 in “reindeer games”?”
Were they females?
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posted on
08/26/2022 2:15:14 PM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(Let's go Brandon)
To: AFB-XYZ
Google agrees that there were 8.
So 4 must have been appetizers.
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posted on
08/26/2022 2:18:51 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: DannyTN
So 4 must have been appetizers. Stacey Abrams concurs. Heh.
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posted on
08/26/2022 2:21:24 PM PDT
by
AFB-XYZ
(Stand up, or bend over)
To: DannyTN
To: MtnClimber
Wow!
This thread went off track quickly.
I spent a year at SPA.
LONG AGO.
To: MtnClimber
Is that a choo choo train at the top?
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posted on
08/27/2022 11:24:59 PM PDT
by
minnesota_bound
(Need more money to buy everything now)
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